Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] that [vb base] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Department of Trade and Industry supervises the whole scheme by approving the bodies that operate it , which effectively means approving their rules and mode of operation as well ; so it 's under government control even if the government is not involved on a day-to-day basis . |
| 2 | And kill the bees that yield it , with your stings ! |
| 3 | We must criticise explanations of difference that treat gender as something obvious , static and monolithic , ignoring the forces that shape it and the varied forms they take in different times and places . |
| 4 | The cinematic trail to Unforgiven is long and winding , and the expression that crops up most often in describing the movies that constitute it is ‘ elegiac ’ . |
| 5 | The consensus will last only so long as most lawyers accept the convictions that support it . |
| 6 | I wonder what they pay the chaps that shovel it up ? |
| 7 | The fruit was still not in his grasp , but he would reach it , he would tend the tree that bore it , he would plant more from its magical pits and seeds . |
| 8 | There is another way of looking at how stable the structure of diamond is — that is by asking how easy it is to break the bonds that hold it together . |
| 9 | In other words , you tend to notice behaviours that confirm the conclusion you have already reached and to ignore the behaviours that contradict it . |